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THE welcome which has been accorded to the volumes of this Series, and the fact that some of them have passed into second and third editions, suggest that these little books have been found useful by beginners in Egyptology and others. Hitherto the object of them has been to supply information about the Religion, Magic, Language, and History of the ancient Egyptians, and to provide editions of the original texts from which such information was derived. There are, however, many branches of Egyptology which need treatment in a similar manner in this Series, and it has been suggested in many quarters that the time has now arrived when the publication of a series of groups of texts illustrating EGYPTIAN LITERATURE in general might well be begun. Seeing that nothing is known about the authors of Egyptian works, not even their names, it is impossible to write a History of Egyptian Literature in the ordinary sense of the word. The only thing to be done is to print the actual works in the best and most complete form possible, with translations, and then to put them in the hands of the reader and leave them to his judgment.
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Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations
by E. A. Wallis Budge [1912]
Title Page Preface Contents List of Plates and Illustrations
Introduction Summary: I. The Legend of the God Neb-er-tcher, and the History of Creation Summary: II. The Legend of the Destruction of Mankind Summary: III. The Legend Of Ra and Isis. Summary: IV: The Legend of Heru-Behutet and the Winged Disk Summary: V. Legend of the Birth of Horus, Son of Isis and Osiris. Summary: VI. A Legend of Khensu Nefer-hetep and the Princess of Bekhten Summary: VII. A Legend Of Khnemu And Of A Seven Years' Famine Summary: VIII. The Legend of the Death and Resurrection of Horus, and Other Magical Texts Summary: IX: The History